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BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1881. NO. 23. VOLUME XXVI. 2lf^H
The York town Centennial 0<le.
IHark,
hark ! down the century's long-reaching i
eloj'C
To those transports of triumph, those raptures
of hope,
The voices of main ami mountain combine !
In glad resonance borne on the wing of the
wind,
The bass of the drum and the trumpet that j
thrills
Through the multiplied echoes of jubilant hills,
And mark how the years, melting upward like
mist
Which the breath of some splendid enchantress
has kissed,
Reveal on the ocean, reveal on the shoro
The proiul pageant of conquest that graced
them of yotv,
When blended forever in love as in fame
See, the standard which stole from the starlight
its fame,
And type of all chivalry, glory, romance,
The fair lilies, the luminous lilies of France.
II.
Oh stubborn the strife ere the conflict was
won!
And tho wild whirling war wrack half-stilled
the bud,
$he thunders of cannons that boomed on the
lea
But re-echoed Tar thunders pealed up from the
Where guarding liis sea-lists, a knight on the
waves,
Bold De Grass* kept at bay the bluff bulldogs
of Graves,
rr>i . 1. 1 . . il.? (urnn.l
Jine uav lUIilVU iu iiamiics;, wn; ?ij,uv VJ
fi.'C,
Still more fiercer waxed the combat, moro
deadly the ire.
Undiiumed by the gloom, in majestic advance,
Oh behold where they ride o'er the red buttlu )
tide,
Those banners united in love as in fame,
The brave standard which drew from the star
beams their tlamc.
And typo of all chivalry, Glory, romance,
The fair lilies, the luminous lilies ot France. [
nr.
No respite, no pause; by the York's tortured [
flood
The gray Lion of England is writhing in blood.
Cornwallis may chafe and coarse Tarleton aver
As he sharpens his broadsword and buckles his
spur,
'This blade, which so often has reaped rebels
like grain,
Shall now harvest for death the rudo yeoman '
again."
Vain boast: for ere sunset he's flying in fear, 1
With the rebels ho scouted close, close in his j
rear,
The French on his flank hurl such volleys of
shot
That e'en Gloucester's redoubt must be grow- j '
ing too hot. I j
Thus wedded in love as united in fame.
Lo! the standard which stole from the star- '
light its flame, ,
And type of all chivalry, glory, romance, j
The fi-ir lilies, the luminous lilies of Franco
IV.
Oh morning appear I when tuo siege reached j
See! the sundawn ontblown like the alchemist's i
rose 1 j
The last wreath of smoke from dim trenches ,
upcurled ,
Are transformed to a glory that smiles on the 3
world.
Joy, Joy! Save the waii, wasted front of the t
foe,
With his battle flag* furled and his arms trailing
low. ^ i
Bespect for the brave ! In grim silence they |
yield
And in silence they pas3 with bowed head from ]
the field.
Then triumph transcendent! so Titan of tone !
That some'vowed it most startle King George ]
on his throne. <
V* 1
When Peace to her own time the pvrise of the i
land, ^
And the war weapon sank from the war-wearied
hand, 3
Young Freedom upborne to the height of the
goal (
She had yearned for so long with deep travail
of bonl, j
A song of the future raised, thrilling and ^
clear,
Till the woads leaned to hearken, the hill slopes ]
to hear, j
Yet fraught with all magical grandeurs tha <
gleam
On the hero's high hope, or the patriot's
dream, ?
What futnre, though bright, in cold shadow
shall cast
Tho stern beautv that halos the brow of the
past. *
Oh. wedded in love, as united in fame, ^
See the standard which stole from the starlight
its flame.
And type of all chivalry, glory, romance,
The fair lilies, the luminous lilies of France.
"AHEAD OF TIME."!
i n
! s
" Now I'm going to show you wny I I ]
struck out for myself." c
I had been driving a mile or two ]
with my cheery friend, Dr. Mary Stedman,
and until that moment was un- r
aware of r.ny motive for the ride other t
than the usual one of pleasure to us r
both. r
" I have a warm place in my heart t
for my native Vermont," she went on ;
"And knowing how 1 love it, I am sure j p
you have often wondered why I did not ' s
remain here instead of seeking a home r
and a profession for myself among
strangere." i
I had often speculated on this very ^
subject but there was no time to confess ]
it, for at ihat moment my companion \
reined up suddenly, and with a brisk c
" Here we are !" jumped from the car- ]
riage. 3
"This," pointing to a weather-beaten
but still comfortable-looking house, "is (_
the homestead. Since the death of our
parents my eldest brother has lived (
here. You needn't be at all disturbed,"' ^
as I naturally hesitated about intruding (
among strangers, "for mj sister-in-law , (
axpects us." I j
"How cool! how neat! how shady j \
and comfortable!" were my first ex-; j
clamations as I followed my leader into ]
the old-fashioned parlor. ! ]
"Just so," she responded drily, j
"And, my dear, you might search from j
cellar to garret of this great house, and
though you stood upon ladders, and ! j
peered with a microscopo upon your j ]
Vjanrla tn<iou rnn trnnM rovoi* lift i
able to lind a fly." 11
Mrs. Stedman looked as her sister-in- j j
law had described her?" like a very sad
and troubled ghost." She was pain- I
fully thin and haggard, and at least a
dozen times during our short call I noticed
her mournful eyes lill with tears.
" "Well, Sarah," said the doctor,
" you are as busy as ever, I suppose ?"
"Oh, yes," our hostess replied;
" there is never any end to work." j
" Been making butter to-day ?"
"I made a little over forty pounds this
morning."
"Before breakfast, I suppose?"
The doctor's tone was somewhat
crisp.
"I churned at four, and I have jus}
worked my butter over. I don't mind
' bo much when churning doesn't come
washing days; and, you see, cream has
I got to be attended to whenever it is ]
ready." (
"JfcJeen washing, too ?" my friend ia.
quired.
"Ob, yes! And it did seem as if I
had every garment in the tub that there <
was in the house!"
"So you've made forty pounds of
butter," said the doctor, " washed?and
what else 7*
" Not much else beside the regular
work. I picked some beans for dinner,
and made a few pies; that's all."
At this point my friend, much to my
surprise, turned the conversation into
other channels, and soon after we took
our leave.
' It seems to me you have neglected
an opportunity," I remarked, as soon
as we had driven away.
"I supposed you'd think so," my
companion answered; "but you can
form no conception of the amount of
breath I have wasted on that very case.
I am regarding it now solely from a
Mi6atiflo standpoint. I think I calcu?
ttirh l .'V
I
late the length of that woman's days 1
within a fraction of time."
" I should think vonr brother wouldn't
allow his wife to work so,*' 1 remarked.
i: What does he know about it?" said '
the doctor. " He comes into the house
for the three meals that are prepared
tor him, and when night comes lie goes
to bed and to sleep, or he drives over to
the village and spends his evenings with
his friends. My brother works hard,
bnt he works out of doors, and that eaves
him. Sarah has an excellent reputation
as wife end housekeeper all over the
country. She has helped my brother 1
'lay up'?in Yermount vernacular?
.several thousand dollars. It doesn't
take a prophet to fee that another wife
will have the benefit of this one's toil;
though it is probable, if she comes from
this section of the country, she'll not
have sense enough to bo benefited by
anything!"
"If your sister-in-law would only;
have a servant," I suggested.
"A servant! "Why, what a greenhorn '
you are'"said the doctor. you :
think my brother and his wife are
strong enough to bear the linger of scorn :
that would inevitably be pointed at 1
them should they employ a servant ? It I'
is far bettor, my dear, to work one's self
to death tlmn to be called lazy, and ' i
shiftless and extravagant. If this were | J
not the case they would not think they 11
could afford a servant. My brother is j i
dominated, soul and body, by the spirit i
of economy, and his wife is a reflection i
of bimself. Hero we are again,'' my j
friend continued, coming to a stop be- j i
foro the door of a more modern and <
more pretentious mansion. "Myyoung- i ]
est sister lives here. It seems singular, ! t
doesn't it, that I have never introduced I <
yen to my relatives before ? The truth
is, you and I are perplexities to these f
good people. We turn them out of ! t
their beaten tracks for a while, with no
other result than to aJd to their hard \
work and anxieties. Ten years ago my j i
sister Anna was a^ healthy a girl as 1
there was in Vermont, and the brightest j j
and wittiest one of the family. I had |
some hopes that she would keep out of :
the treadmill, and, if she did marry a j
farmer and settle down here, that she ,
would furnish an example of common j(
sense to her neigobors; but she is just j?
like the rest, only worse perhaps."
All this as the doctor hitched ber '?
liorse, and we walked up the long j \
gravel eu \vhik.
Sister Anna was scolding one of her j t
children when we entered the house, |
md we were upon her before she had
finished her loud-pitched harangue.
"I don't believo any one ever had
such contrary youngsters as I have got!" (
die remarked, apologetically. " They '
:lo worry ine so sometimes that it seems j
So mo I should enjoy myself iu my ;
jrave " !
"Send a coui>le of them to me, Anna, j
whenever you feel like parting with !
diem," said the doctor.
"I would in a minute if their father
!?as willing," the lady replied. " I :
lon't know how to bring up children," j
she added, "and if I did know how, '
[ haven't any time. To tell the truth, j
t have such a pain in my side all the
timo that I'm not tit for auything. I
ivish you'd give me some of that medicine,
Mary, that you gave me last sum- j
mer."' |
"I suppose you work just as hard,
:\nna, as though yon hadn't a pain in
four side," the doctor remarked.
"Of course I do," was the somewhat
irritable response. " Who else is thero |
to do it if I give up?"
" Where is the pain, Anna, and how
long have you had it?"
The doctor's tones svere even, and *
lier manner so calmly professional that 1
[ had at the time no suspicion that any 8
3f it was assumed. J
" It is under my left shoulder-blade,"
tier sister replied, "and I haven't 8
wreathed a long breath since last No- 8
rember. Sometimes it is worse than
jthers, and I am conscious of it every *
ninute." 11
The doctor drew a chair to her sister's
side, and took her hand in hers.
" Dear me, Mary, my pulse is all
right," said the invalid, doing lier beat ^
:o make light of the situation. ;
" How many men does your husband , ?
aire this summer, Anna ?" the doctor
nquired, as she prepared some medi- js
;ine. ,1
" Only six this year."
" And you cook and wash for them, I : s
suppose ! I
"Of course." j
" How many cows have you ?"
" Fourteen." x
" And you make butter for market ?" ?
Sister Anna smiled as she answered ;1
his question. ' 1
" 1 average about sixty pounds a 1
veek." J
" What time do you get up in the 51
norning ?*
" About 4 o'clock. ' ^
" What time do you go to bed ?"
" Anywhere from 10 to 12," and then,
yith a glance in my direction, "you 11
;ee, farmers have to keep ahead of time, i v
!f they didn't manage to do this they c
souldn't lav up anything, to save their ~
iveS." j
" Anna," said the doctor, taking no
lotice of the above remark, " I intend
0 stay in Vermont a month, unless I am 0
leeded in New York. Would you like *
ne to take charge of your case during ^
hat time?"
"My case!" her bister repeated in f
1 reat perplexity. "I don't suppose I 1!
ihall need anything more than that s
nedicine." n
" I will gladly do all I can for you, j a
^.nna," the doctor resumed, "and n
vhen I am compelled to go back I will; t
cave you in good hands; but, it must, 0
>e on condition of the most perfect i t
)bedience on your part. You have '
rnrd couching spells cvei-y morning, do . I
rou not ?" i k
"Yes, Mary, but how in the world t
lid you Know that ?" J v
"No matter how I know it. That I
lo know it is sufficient. To begin a
vith, Anna, your husband must liml *
)ther places for his workmen, and some d
>no must be found immediately to do c
rour housework. You must go to bed | f
;very night at 8 o'clock, and remain c
n bed till after breakfast. You must o
lave all sorts of nourishing food, and 1
pork and codfish must bo eliminated j
:rom your bill of fare." I
" Mary, what do yon mean ?"
There was a look of terror in the
poor woman's eves, and her lips quivered j
painfully.
"I'meau, if you do exactly as I tell
rou, you may get well; if not, it is impossible,"
the doctor replied. " If you
ihink I am exaggerating, or don't know
what I am talking about, send for any
reputable physician you please and ask
aim to tell you the truth." i
" Oh, Mary ! There isn't any way of j
loing the thing.? you speak of. Clarke j
feels awfully poor this summer, and I
have been trying harder than ever to
make the ends lap over."
" Where is Clarke V" the doctor in- |
juired.
" He is down at the creek, having."
,!I will drive down and liavo a tulk
with him right away," said my friend. .
making ready to leave.
" Oh, Mary! Don't you think there j
is any other way ?"
The poor woman had broken down
completely now, and the doctor held
ber for a moment in her strong arms j
tin/? fnrnssprl fondlv. I
"No other wa/, sis," she replied; '
' but we will do the best we can. '
There's no telling what a good rest and 1
careful nursing may do for your poor <
tired body, my dear." (
"I was going to take you to Rome 1
other places," the doctor remarked, as ,1
we drove away, "but it would have been
the same old story; work, work, work, ,
without rest or change, from year's end
to year's end. My mother killed her - '
self by her attempts to get ahead of }
time. Two sisters have traveled the
same road that Anna has started on,
one of them absolutely dropping dead ,
in her kitchen in the midst of her work.
This is the kind of thing I ^ould not !
endure to see go on. I knev it was all
wrong as soon as I knew anything, and >
when I became old enough to have a :
voice in my own education I persisted
in taking a different course. My sister
Anna has tried so hard to get ahead of
time and make things ' lap over' that
she lms abused and probably killed herself,
beside criminally neglecting and
mismanaging lier children. I don't
suppose site has had live hours' sleep
out of tlio twenty-four during tin* last
tiro years, and think of that amount of
rest for a woman whoso 1 train and
muscle are forever in use! Every year
I come up here and lind things going
from bad to worse among my relatives
and most of my friends, and the
horrible part of it is that nothing one
can say or do wiil ever have the slightest
cfTect."
' Don't you think your verv natural
anxiety about your sister may liave colored
your diagnosis a little ?" I inquired.
"Not in the least," my companion
answered. "Anna's pulse was one
hundred and twelve. The respiration
was labored and ominously frequent.
i c: v> a ?> n ci 1 \ ''
AUUU xiu uiioiaaiu^ outu
" How could she keep at work with
such a pulse as that ?" I asked.
"By the exercise of will power," said
the doctor. " In our family will power
is a direct inheritance. If it could otily
have been put to a good use how much
might have been accomplished! My
clear, this will power eats salt pork
when good beef and the most nutritious
food are absolute necessities. It makes
ill its cream into butter that the cash
may ' lap over.' It dn'nks skim milk,
ina works nineteen hours out of twentyFour."
Soon after this the doctor dropped
me at my boarding-house.
"Now you know all about it," she
remarked in parting, "and if anyone
3ver nsks you why Mary Stedman did
not remain among her relatives you can
ay that she declined to live among
criminals and suicides."
Five months after the above incident
>ister Anna died, and one year from
Ihat date the widower married again,
fhe second wife is a duplicate of the
first, working night and day and "layngup"for
a future which it is more
:han likely she never will enjoy.?
Eleanor Kirk, in Christian Union.
Xevtspapr. Advertising.
The first-class newspaper or periodical
possesses very obvious advantages
is an advertising medium. It goes into
;he family, is read by each member,
ma is irequentiy so mucn in aemauci
;hat wbilo ono is reading it another is
mpatiently awaiting bis or her turn,
[t lias features which causo it to be preserved
for a day or two, if not longer,
md it is usually taken up several times
ifter the first reading. The advertisements
are looked at as well as tho news
ind if anything mentioned in the adrertising
columns is especially needed
n the household, it is eagerly noticed,
md one of the family will be likely to
start out to purchase it. Every day a
arge number of persons who are in
iced of eomo article turn to the adverising
columns of newspapers in the
lope of finding an announcement of
vhat they want. Newspaper advertisenents
are thus looked at when the
eader is in a mood to make a pur;base,
but the inscriptions on rocks and
joards, and the other catchpenny ways
>f advertising,will only by mere chance
neet one's eye when the mind desires
vhat "is ment ioned. Moreover, the news)aper
advertisement is superior to all
>ther forms of advertising in versatilty.
For instance, the advertisement
>f a grocery man can be at once altered
io as to considerably increase Lis trade
>y putting an announcement of some
lesirable goods just received in the
)lace of some long-standing announcenent
of staple articles with which tho
mblic are already quite familiar. Tho j
mblic are on the lookout for novelties
,nd special bargains, and there is no
>ther medium than tho newspaper i
hrough which they can satisfactorily |
md easily keep posted in these ropects.
It cannot be too carefully borne in
nind that the great advantages belongng
to newspaper advertising can only
>e fully and satisfactorily derived from
dvertisements in the best papers, those
vhich have high literary and moral
forth, and find their way into the most
espectable and thrifty families. The
;ensational papers, the papers that
reat only of ephemeral matters in a
tnperficial way, that have a skim-milk
nake up, aud are perhaps only hastily
jlanced at as one rides in the horse-car
md then thrown away, are obviously
)00r mediums for advertising.
The country weekly is undoubtedly
>ne of the best papers in which to ad ertise.
Its circulation may be small
md mostly confined to one locality,but
t goes among families who read it and
reserve it more carefully than the city
nan does his daily paper, and who de\orw1
nri if. vrliaf.
.dvertising information they need. A
arge circulation, by the way, although
ery desirable, cannot make a paper
hat is deficient in character and literary
xcellence a valuable advertising melium,
while a paper of high standing
rith but a moderate circulation can
ommand the most valuable patronage.
-Paper Worhl.
Inspecting Keely's Motor.
A short time ago some of the directrs
of the Keely Motor company exended
an invitation to several New
fork capitalists to como over to Philalelphia
and witness the operation of
his much talked-of machine. Accordingly
a number of gentleman, repreen
ing different commercial pursuits
nd a good deal of capital, visited Phildel
phia and were escorted to where the
aotor is in place, in an old stable in
he rear of Mr. Keely's house. The
nlv possible way to gain admittance to
he seance was by giving three raps on
he door at short intervals, and Mr.
jorimer, one of tho directors, and Mr.
ichullerman, the secretary, as1 door
enders, tried to exclude all but the inited
few.
As the clock was striking 8 the upper
.partment of tho stable was full of j
aen. Mr. Keely then poured twenty j
Irops of cold water into tho generator
>f his apparatus and connected the dif- j
erent tubes which acted as insulators
>f sound and vibration. After the first
xpulsion, which caused the vaporizaion
of apart of the twenty drops of
vater poured iuto tho generator, Mr.
veelv proceeded to b1iow the vibratory
)Ower of liis machine, placing a hollow
>rass globe between two plates of glass
in inch thick. Certain combinations
vere made and the globe began to rerolvo
at the rate of a hundred revoluions
a second, as claimed by Keely.
die next experiment was the liring of a
:annou ball through a four-inch plank
md then flattening tho ball against an
ron plato back of tho plank. Again a
ittle wire was connected between the
generator and the canuon, and, without
tny apparent force except that supplied
>y tho vapor gained from the twenty
lrops of water, a ball went crashing
hrough the room, striking the wall in
vhat Mr. Keely calla his vice shop. No
lot air escaped from the mouth of the
annon. Th<?n Mr. Keely exhibited his
jelting machinery and created what
vas claimed to be six-horso power moion
instantaneously. Many questions,
ill wonderfully unscientific, were asked
ind answered by Mr. Keely in an exutable,
jerky way, iu incomprehensible
jcientitic terms. After tho exhibition
vas over a vote of thanks was tendered
Mr. Keely. In bis reply he said: "I do
iot claim to have invented this. Any
nan who would make such a claim
vould be a fool. This is an invention
)f tho great Creator. I merely put together
machinery to demonstrate the
vibratory power of that you have witnessed
to-night."
Newspapers have become teachers.
They form and give direction to the
public mind on all public questions, the
public view them as the work of men
tvlio stand above mediocrity in education,
general acquirements and natural
ability; and they should onsequently
be edited with a dignity, accuracy and
ability becoming their high office.?
Peoria Transcript.
Of the 11G ministers of the Presbyterian
church, North, who died last
year, two were over ninety years old,
nineteen were between eighty and
ninety, thirty-five were between seventy
and eighty, and fifty were under seventy,
THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. i
Extrnrt* from ClinrlrN IJuclley Wnrner'n ,
I'nper, Krnul Before the Americnn Social 1
Science Amoclutiun.
The newspaper is a private enterprise. |
j Its object is to make money for its j
| owner. Whatever motivo may be given !
out for starting a newspaper, expecta- j
, tion of profit by it is the real one, '
j whether the newspaper is religions, j
political, scientific or literary. The ex-1
! ceptiorial cases of newspapers devoted j
j to ideas of " causes" witliout regard to I
I profit, arc so few as not to affect the j
I rule. Commonly, the cause, the sect, |
the party, the trade, the delusion, the j
idea, gets its newspaper, its organ, its i
advocate, only when some individual
thinks he can see a pecuniary return in
establishing it.
The chief function of the newspaper
is to collect and print the news. The
second function is to elucidate the news,
and comment on it, and show its relations.
A third function is to furnish
reading matter to the general public.
Nothing is so difficult for the manager
as to know wliat news is; the instinct
for it is a sort of sixth sense.
To discern out of llie mass of materials
collected not only what is most likely
to interest the public, but what phase
and aspect of it will attract most attention,
and the relative importance of it;
to tell the day before or at midnight
what the world will bo talking about in
the morning, and what it will want the
fullest details of, and to meet that want
iu advance, requires a peculiar talent.
There is always some topic on which the
public wants instant information. It is
easy enough when the news is developed,
aud everybody is discussing it,
for the editor to fall in. But the success
of the news printed depends upon
a pr j-apprehension of all this. Scarcely
less important than promptly seizing
and printing the news, is the attractive
arrangement of it, its effective presentation
to the eye. Two papers may have
exactly the same important intelligence,
identically the same dispatches; the one
will be called bright,attractive, "newsy,"
the other dull and stupid.
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN* JOURNALS.
In particularity and comprehensiveness
of news collecting it may bo admitted
that the American newspapers
for a time led the world. I mean in the
picking up of local intelligence and the
use of the telegraph to make it general.
And with this arose the old notion that
news is made important by the mere fact
of its rapid transmission over the wiro.
The English journals followed, speedily
overtook and, some of the wealthier
ones perhaps, surpassed tho American
in the use of the telegraph and in the
presentation of some sorts of local
news; not of casualties, and small city
and neighborhood events, and social
gossips (until very recently), but certainly
in the business of the law-courts
and the crimes and mishaps that come
within police and legal supervision.
The leading papers of the German press,
though strong in correspondence and in
discussion of affairs, are far less comprehensive
in their news than the American
or the English. The French journals
we are accustomed to say are not
newspapers at all. And this is true as
we use the word. Until recently nothing
has been of importance to the
Frenchman except himself; and what
happened outside of France, notdirectly
affecting his glory, his profit or his
pleasure, did not interest him. Hence,
one conld nowhere so securely intrench
himself against the news of the world,
as behind tho barricade of tho Pans
journals. But let us not make a mistake
in this matter. We may have
more to learn trom trie raris journals
than from any others. If they
do not give what we call news, local
news, events, casualties, the hs.ppenings
of the day, they do give ideas, opinions,
they do discus.? politics, the social drift,
they give the intellectual ferment of
Paris, they supply the material that
Paris likes to talk over?the badinage
of the boulevard, the wit of the salon,
the sensation of the stage, the new i
movement in literature and in politics;
this may be important or it may be
trivial; it is commonly more interesting
than much of what we call news.
WHAT 13 NEWS?
What is news? What is it that an
intelligent public should care to hear
of and talk about ? Run your eye down
the columns of your journal. There
was a drunken squabble last night in ja
New York groggery; there is a petty
but carefully elaborated villago scandal
about a foolish girl; a woman accidentally
dropped her baby out of a
fourth-story window in Maine; in Connecticut
a wife, by mistake, got into the
same railway train with another
woman's husband; a child fell into a
well in New Jersey; there is a column
about a peripatetic horse-race which i
exhibits, liko a circus, from city to
city; a laborer in a remote town in ,
Pennsylvania had a sunstroke; there is
the edifying dyiDg speech of a mur- :
d?rer, the love-letter of a suicide, the j
set-to of a couple of Congressmen, and
there are columns about the Gigantic i
war of half a dozen politicians over the :
appointment of a sugar-gauger. Grant- j
ed that this pabulum is desired by the i
reader, why not save tho expense of i
transmission by having several columns i
stereotyped, to be reproduced at proper ]
intervals? With the date changed it <
would always have the original value |
and perfectly satisfy the demand, if a
demand exists, for this sort of news.
Tbis is not, as you see, a description
of your journal; it is a description of
only one portion of it. It-is a complex j
and wonderful creation. Every morning
it is a mirror of (he world, more or
less distorted and imperfect, but such a
mirror as it never had held up to it before.
But consider how much space is
taken up with mere trivialities and vul- f
garities, under the name of news. And ! t
this evil is likely to continue and in- <
crease until news-gatherers learn that I,
more important than .the reports of acci- ]
dents and casualties is the intelligence \
of opinions and thoughts, tho moral \
and intellectual movements of modern j
life. A. horrible assassination in India i
is instantly telegraphed; but the pro- gress
of such a vast movement as that
of the Wahabee revival in Islam, which
may change the destiny of great provinces,
never gets itself put upon the
wires. We hear promptly of a land- j
slide in Switzerland, but onlv very i
slowly of a political agitation that is
changing the constitution of the repub- j (
lie. It should bo said, however, that <
the daily newspaper is not alono responsible
for this. It is what the age i
and the community where it is published
make it. So far as I have ob- ,
served the majority of the readers in ;
America peruse eagerly three columns about
a mill between an English and a :
naturalized American prize-fighter, but
will onlj glance at a column report of a i
debite in the English parliament which
involves a radical change in the whole
policy of England; and devours a page
about the Chantilly races, while it ignores
a paragraph concerning the suppression
of the Jesuit schools.
NEIGHBORHOOD GOSSIP.
Perhaps the most striking feature of
the American newspaper, especially of
the country weekly, is its enormous development
of local and neighborhood
news. It is of recent date. Horace
Greeley used to advise the country editors
to give small spnee to the general
news of tho world, but. to cultivate assiduously
the home field, to glean
every possible detail of private life in
the circuit of the county and print it.
The advice was shrewd for a metropolitan
editor, and it was not without its
profit to the country editor. It was
founded on a deep knowledge of human
nature, namely, upon the fact that people
read most eagerly that which they
already know, if it is about themselves
or their neighbors, if it is a report of
something that they have been concerned
in, a lecture they have heard, a
fair, or festival, or wedding, or funeral,
or barn-raising they have attended.
The result is column after column of
short paragraphs of gossip and trivialities,
chips, chips, chips. Mr. Sales
is contemplating erecting anewconnter
in his store; his rival opposite has a
new sign; Miss Bumps, of Oath, is visiting
her cousin, Miss Smith, of Boz
rah; the sheriff has painted his fence;
Farmer Brown has lost a cow; the eminent
member from Neopolis Las pnt an
L on one end of his mansion and a
mortgage on the other. On the face of
it nothing is so vapid and profitless as
columns after columns of this reading.
These "items" have very little interest
except to those who already know the
facts. But those concerned like to see
them in print, and take tlio newspaper
on that account.
FACTS AND COMMENTS.
Tho reports of the semiannual conference
of the Mormon church at Salt
Lake do not indicate any abatement of
zeal, on the part of ihe men with many
wives. Fifteen thousand delegates were
gathered from Utah, Arizona, Idaho,
Wyoming and Nevada, and their religious
enthusiasm was remarkable.
A joint committee of tho Colored and
African Methodist Episcopal churches
is to meet in Baltimore next Februarv
to discuss the subject of the union of
the two bodies. These are two of the
three u leading African Methodist
churches of the country. The Colored
church is Southern and is an off-shoot
from the Methodist Episcopal church
South.
Newspapers seem to us to show a
marvelous improvement within the last
fifteen years, and the promise of a great
growth toward a high ideal. Here and
now we do not define the improvement
and the promise. But the marked
tendencies toward the condensation,
the culling, the purifying and the
pertinence of news; toward conscientious
and thorough work in reporting
and reviewing ; toward embracing all
objects of human interest, with preference
for the best; toward independence
in every lino of action and thought,
social, religious and political; toward
the elevation and stimulation of the
best there is in humanity?these deserve
consideration and encouragement.
The destruction of propprty by fire
during September, in the United States
and Canada, amounted to 813,250,000.
Thn f/vrOQ+. fires in Afiphierftn anrl
where swept away 84,000,000 worth of
property at the lowest estimate. The
Commercial Bulletin says that, apart
from the three great conflagrations of
modern American history, it cannot
recall a single month so full of fiery
disaster to tho country as that of September,
1881, and it adds: "With every
allowance for pure accident and elemental
adversities ? such as the
drought, lightning, etc. ? the great
bulk of all this waste must still be
charged upon that disregard of plain
precautions which has started and fed
these flames. Care might have prevented
nine-tenths of the fires. But
carelessness, in fact, has been the incendiary,
and for carelessness there is
no other penalty than loss, in which
too often the innocent suffer more than
the guilty."
A Chinese philosopher, writing in the
Shenpao, claims that the reason why so
many rulers in Europe and America are
assassinated, and so few in China, is because
the former countries do not possess
tho elaborate ceremonials of the
latter. He says: Westoms possess few
ceremonies; superiors and inferiors are
commingled, and subjects venture on
their poisonous plots. China lias her
shortcomings, and her ceremonial may
be excessive, but tho highest authority
never falls into such abeyance. Westnvti
nornrrir.nio 1 ia c/iAnf nr?il 4lin nln'aP
V.iU AO OUUUU UilU L1J U
power is often laid low. The Jack of
ceremony in the^West brings constant
trouble and fear o'f death to the prince,
but the excess cf it in China saves hsr
at any rate from this and makes the
state stable. The guards of the Russian
emperor and his inabilty to go
abroad, though preserving him, are not
so efficient as would be the enforcement
of decorum. The title of prince and
minister without the ceremonial bring
inevitable revolution.
Mr. D. H. Williams, secretary of the
Michigan Fire Kelief committeo of
Pittsburg, has made a thorough inspection
of the burned district, and, for
the satisfaction of persons who have
contributed to relieve the sufferers,
makes public a report in which he says
that the funds and supplies have been
wisely and efficien tly distributed. There
is peneral satisfaction amcng the beneficiaries,
and unbounded gratitude to the
donors. Mr. Williams adds: The fact
that planting-time had arrived when the
fires occurred, a:ad tliat there is now a
larger acreage sown than ever before, is
the best evidence of the efficiency of the
committees. There are no fences, but
the crop is in no danger of being destroyed
by roving cattle. A little
watching and an abundance of green
grass will protect the wheat for the
nronpnt. Tim fwf.<?nt. of land under im.
provement wasnoi: anticipated by me,
and the most astonishing fact was that,
with snch an area of improved land, bo
much destruction was possible. It is
rare to see so much good farming land
in one body as exists in this region. To
3um up my observations, they lead me
to believe that there has been a widespread
destruction of property, great
loss of human life, and a vast nnmber
Df people requiring relief thrown upon
the charity cf the country.
It is a matter of discussion what Congress
will do for Mrs. Garfield. In this
3onnection the acts. passed in relation
to Mrs. Mary Lincoln are of interest,
rhero were three acts of the kind i
passed by Congress. The first act,
passed when Cong res 3 came together j
ifter the assassination of President!
Lincoln, was as follows: " That the !
secretary of the treasury pay, out of j
*ny money in the treasury not other- j
svi ie appropriated, to Mrs. Mary Lin-;
2oln, widow of Abraham Lincoln, lafe '
President of the United States, or iu .
the event of her death before payment, j
to the lawful neirs, the sum of ?25,000; I
provided always that any sum of money j
which shall have been paid to the per- j
sonal representatives of the said Abra
ban Lincoln since his death, on ac- I
[jount of his salary as President of the '
United States for tie current year, shall j
bo deducted from the said sum of j
$25,000.' The amount thus granted to |
Mrs. Lincoln was the salary of the
President for one year. Now that
salary is 850,000. In February, 1S0G,
Congress passed v,he following act:
" That all letters aad packets carried
by po.st to and from Mary Lincoln,
widow of the late Abraham Lincoln, be
carried free of postage during her natural
life." In 1870 the following act was
passed : " That the secretary of the interior
be and is hereby authorized to
place the name of Mary Lincoln, widow
of Abraham Lincoln, deceased, late
President of the United States, on the
pension roll, and allow and pay her a
pension at the rate of 83,000 per annum
from and after the passage of this act.'
Plenty of (Jame.
Common people, who have not received
tbe proper amount of educational j
nutriment, are apt to be careless in the
use of their mother tongue. Some
folks ask a question in such a way that
vrm rlnn't. knrw whftf tViov rnrnn
while the trne scholar says exactly what
he means and means exactly what he
says. For example: A gentleman with
a gun over his shoulder, while wandering
through the " rheu barbs " of a far
Western hamlet, met an unfledged Milton,
and said: "Sonny, is there any
game in theRe parts ?" He did not explain
that he meant elephants or tigers
or grizzly bears, and so depended upon
the native genius of the youth to
answer his question correctly. The
boy, who had spent most of his time.in
a miner's camp, and had made himself
acquainted with the pastimes of that
simple-minded and bucolic folk, replied
at once: "Yes, sir, there's plenty."
The hunter took his double-barreled
weapon from his shoulder and put a new
cap on, and in a very enthusiastic way
asked again: "Well, what kind of
game is there ?" The rustic sonny replied:
"Well, si;*, there's considerable
euchre,' but then it's mostly ' seven
up' in these parts."
THICKS IN* THE HOUSE TRADE.
Monte rueful illntnto Intending l*urchn??er? ;
?-?Slini-p 1'rnctlcc Amoiiu Hokum A?lver- ;
tUcri?Where llip RcMt Hornc* Come
l-'roin?Kncin to Kcinomber.
In the course of an interesting coc-!
versation with n gentleman who has for
several years been largely interested in !
the purchase of horses, a representative j
of this journal gleaned several import-:
ant facts.
Of late years qui'e a large business j
has sprung up in Canadian ponies, ;
which, owing to their toughness, aro
in great demand by retail dealers, as
grocers, butchers, peddlers, etc. Two I
French Canadians, who travel between :
the province of Quebec and New York,
annually import several thousand ani-1
mals of this class, the selling price of
which ranges from S90 to ?200 apiece.
Tho duty is twenty per cent. These
are purchased in Canada for from 8-10
to $125, the latter price boing considered
n very high figure across the lino.
Horses intended to run to street-cars,
or, as they are technically termed,
"railroaders," come mostly from Western
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and j
even as fur as Missouri. The two !
largest firms engaged in this line are
Isaac Dolmun and Messrs. Oakley &
Smith. They cost from $120 to ?150 a
head. A good railroader will last five
years, at the expiration of which time
they aro sold by tho street-car companies
to small farmers and peddlers.
Before a final purchase is made by the
street-car companies the horses are |
generally tried in harnesss, and if j
found suitable for tho purpose are accented.
The largest build of horses, for brew- i
ers, express companies and heavy truck j
work, come almost exclnsively from j
Western Pennsylvania, and realize from |
$200 to $400 apiece. They approach j
tho Percherou tribo in look and form,
and at the present time these animals
are somewnai: scarce.
Carriage, trotting and saddle horses
come mostly from Kentucky and command
fancy prices, ?3,500 not being
considered an out of the way figure for
a well matched span. The average
price is about $1,000 a pair.
Considering the large dimensions
which the horsb jrade has assumed, it
is in comparatively few hands, and the
pxiblic ignorance which prevails in regard
to a fair knowledge of horsefiesh
naturally presupposes the existence of
extensive fraud.
This, however, is chiefly confined to
one or two gangs of sharpers, who havo
for several years infested Brooklyn and
New York city. "From tho fact that
the trade is in a few hands," said one
informant, " it would scarcely pay them
to make fraud a specialty, and there- !
fore most of them do a straight busi-1
ness. Occasionally they may sell a
horse, which turns out to be bad, at a
good figure, just as you may find a bad
cigar among a box of good ones.
Neither do I think the practice of j
'doctoring' horses is nearly so preva-!
lent as formerly. Perhaps for a $20 bill
a veterinary surgeon can bo found who
will pass a bad horse upon an ignorant i
customer; but such cases are entirely
exceptional. The kind of fraud, however,
which is perpetrated upon the I
public comes from another source'
altogether, and is put up by rascals j
who mate their living in this way. At j
the preseat time the police are engaged |
in hunting up a gang of these fellows, ;
who operate through unprincipled
livery-stable keepers, who go shares in
the transaction."
" Can you give any instances within ;
your own knowledge?"
" Yes, several. Whenever I see an j
advertisement to the effect that a lndy :
having met with a serious affliction, j
and being compelled to reduce her establishment,
is willing to sell her fine
bay n:.aie, warranted sound and kind,'
etc., I confess I am always suspicious
there is something wrong.
Tha wording of the advertisement attracts
attention, and those not up to
this very old trick imagine they can
purchase a good animal cheap. Another j
popular form of headiDg is ' Owing to
the death of my wife,' or, 'A gentleman
being suddenly called to Europo' or
inrougn serious reverses in my iamuy,
or, 1A gentleman pecuniarily embarrassed,'
etc. I tell you these gentry
are well up in tlie sentimental order of
literature. Then comes the swindle,
which is carried out in the following
manner: The person who, having been
attracted by the advertisement, wishes
to purchase, goes to the stable where
the animal is said to be, and is met by
a gentlemanly-looking man who represents
the owner. Gentlemanly man
shows the horse, which may be really
a good one, but declines to sell him, as
a party has already bespoken him; but
if the would-be purchaser is willing to
deposit ?25 the gentlemanly man will
let him have the horse at some ridiculously
low figure, provided previous I
party does not call at a certain hour. I
Unsuspicous party deposits ?25, re-1
turns to claim his wonderfully cheap j
horse, and finds the horse and his rider !
flown. The livery-stable keeper is applied
to and says he doesn't know anything
about the man, who had put up
bis hcrse to board only the day before.
Another trick," continued our informant,
" was one which was successfully
accomplished only a month ago. A |
good road horse was advertised for sale j
for ?150. There were several applicants i
to buy, but they were not sufficiently j
green for the purpose. At length one j
turned up who appeared to be anxious to '
buy. The owner asked him if he meant j
i * n / r\ * t i _ i 1 ? - ji x 1. _ f
uusiness r ui course jl uo, repiieu uie |
innocent; 1 why do you ask?' ' Because j
I've had several applicants who!
eaid they wanted to buy, and came just j
out of curiosity. Now, if you mean
business, I'll hitch up thut horse and
show you his paces if you'll make a deposit
of $50. I won't do it under. It
doesn't pay me to throw away my time
for nothing.' The victim paid, the horse
was harnessed to a sulky, and the owner
drove him up and down the street, much i
to the victim's satisfaction, who was j
about to congratulate himself upon hav- j
ing got a good thing, when the owner :
drovo the animal around the coiner, and !
that was the last that was seen of him.
After waitiug an hour the stable-keeper {
was appealed to. ' Whnt does this
mean?'inquired the victim. 'Why, it (
means that I have been swindled as well|
as yourself.' ' Do you mean to say that;
you don't know the man that's got my \
money?' ' I don't know him any more i
than you do, except that he owes me for i
three days' board for his horse !' This, i
of coutde, was untrue, the stable-keeper, j
in all probability, being in with the |
swindler. I might tell you many similar
tricks, but the above are within my
own knowledge."
"Do these frauds ever get caught?"
"Not very often, although a cele |
brated horse swindler named 'Jewj
Abe' got three years not so very long :
ago in the penitentiary for obtaining |
money by false pretenses much in the
way 1 have told you."
" How do these people operate ?"
"Mostly in gangs. There are supposed
to be six or eight of them. They
change about from one part of the city
to auother, and when the city gets too
hot for thom they go v lsewhere for a
month or so. There are several boiirding-stable
proprietors supposed to be
in league with them."
"How many competent veterinary
surgeons do you suppose there are in :
Brooklyn and New York?"
" Very few really tirst-class men. I
Most, of Hioso who nrofpss to 1>r votpri- 1
? ?-? x
nary surgeons have been farriers in the
British army, and they combine the
study of surgery with that of a ridingmaster.
Horse riding has become quite
a fashionable pastime, and American
ladies make good horsewomen and
appear to take naturally to the
exercise. There are three riding schools
in New York, one in Brooklyn and one
in Hoboken. The rising generation are
going to make good riders."
" Among what class of persons are
the frauds you have mentioned mostly
perpetrated ?"
"Mostly among people of private
means, who, lured by seductive advertisements
and unacquainted with
horses, more easily bite at the attractions
held out to their pockets through
the supposed reverses of others.:
' FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Clover Hay for ilomn.
Clover hay is very nutritions food for
horses, and when well cured and put
up so as to he free from dust and mold,
may he fed with entire safety. The
principal objection to its use lies in the
great difficulty which attends its curing
and preservation. Another objection is
found in the fact that sometimes the
second crop oxcites in horses an unusual
and exhausting flow of saliva. When
either of these objections are present,
it is better to dispense with its use entirely,
so far as the horses are concerned;
but otherwise it is a good and eafe food.
A TonTc for Fowln
Daring the winter season it will be
found n very good plan, twice or thrice
a week, to drop an even Bpoonfnl of
common cayenne pepper into say two
gallons of water given to the fowls for
their daily drink. This is a good tonic,
and it works very kindly toward warming
the blood on chilly day3. Another
excellent provision is to place at the
bottom of the pail or vessel containing
their drink a bit of assafetida. This
impregnates the fluid with its tonic
qualities and it is very wholesome for
fowls in the wintry days.
Homo AdvimtfiffrH of the Silo.
A silo properly constructed will not
burn up, rot down, blow over or wash
away. It will require no insurance and
need no repairs. It can be filled in
any state of the weather. If farmers
are driven out of the harvest field
on account of the wet they can employ
their time in filling a silo. A great
variety of substances can bo ^reserved
in a silo that cannot be cheaply dried
to as to insnro their preservation.
During many seasons it is extremely
difficult to cure fodder so that it will
not lose its leaves and become black.
It is difficult to dry corn fodder bo as
to insure the preservation of the stalks
without causing the leaves to become
very hard and crisp. When clover'is
dried in the hot sunshine a large proportion
of the juices it contains passes
off by evaporation. They may be perceived
in the air a mile away. Every
chemist and physician knows* that
j plants dried in the open air and under
1 a hot sun lose many of their most valuj
able properties. All know that the
I valuable properties of fruits and vege'
tables are better preserved by the proj
cess of canning than by that of drying.
Ensilage is much more easily digested
! than dry fodder. It will be eaten by
I all kinds of animals at an earlier age.
It requires less mastication.?Chicago
I Times.
How to Trent Animnla.
Another individual attempts by running
and yelling to catch his cow or
cows. Why do these naturally gentle
animals run away from him ? Because
they remember full well that on former
occasions when he ha3 succeeded in
catching them a series of blows from
somo heavy cudgel has been their reward.
Is there not some better way of
securing tho good-will of our herds and
in managing them as we wish ? There
is a hollow place on the head of every
cow, just behind the junction of the
horns, which is commonly full of dust,
short hairs and the like, causing the 1
animal an itching sensation. It is a
source of extreme pleasure to the cow
to have the spot scratched, and sinco !
from its location the animal cannot j
reach it, hence when her keeper ap- j
proaches her either in the stable or in |
the pasture, an era of good feeling may j
be ettablished it duo attention be paid
to scratching the hollow spot. If at J
your first approach the cow is a little j
shy, offer her from one hand a nubbin
of corn, while with the other hand you
geirtiy scratch the particular spot in
her head mentioned above. In a ve)y
short time, whenever you go into pasture,
the whole herd will come to you
to have their heads scratchod, and you j
will soon be satisfied that it is as easy
to have them follow you as to resort to !
driving and loud noise.?American Cut- j
uvaiur i
j
HomeOIndc Fertill^c-rn.
i
An English gardener says: I have
long had great faith in eoot as a ma- '
nurc, and have here a covered box .
placed near the castle into which 1 ho i
sweep puts all the soofc from the chim- j
neys and flues from time to time; this j
in the course ci Ihe year amounts to an :
incredible quantity of manure, and very
handy and u.seful we find it. "\Yli9n a
piece of ground is dug we give it a
dressing with soot, and then, in gardening
phrase, " break it down" for the
crop. This really means running a
harrow or rough rake over "it, and it
mixes the soot nicely, and the result is
always satisfactory in the crop. Last
year our onion crop showed unmistakable
signs of the maggot. I immediately
had the piece dressed with soot.
Heavy rains set in j list after, and soon
the onions were on their legs and the
maggots were gone. The rain water 1
from off the roof of the kitchen ru ?
into a tank and is heavily charged wjth
soot. This is handy to the flower arden,
and we find it capital for watering
flower beds in summer. The park one j
au tumn had a lot of what the country j
p eople here call "old to r"?why I know j
not, but it means a lot of old, coarse,
grass?a good dressing of soot in the j
spring, and it soon gave place to fine, j
young, fresh grass, bnd ever sinco the i
deer and Highland cattle may bo found !
at pasture on this brow.
While I am on this subject of home- [
made manures, allow me to mention a j
few others, and the next shall be ashes,
more especially wood ashes. This is
invaluable in a garden if kept dry till j
used. We all know what a terrible [
plague "the club " is amoDg the Brassica
tribe; well, if the seed is sown on j
the surface and covered with ashes, and J
at planting time a hole, with a large |
dibber, is made in the ground and filled |
with the ashes, inserting the plant into j
this, I have never known the club to ;
trouble one, and it is the very best I
tiling to dress lawns and meadow lands, j
encouraging the best grassos and clo- j
vers. In a woody country like this 1
there is plenty of charcoal dust at the
bottom of the heap; this is most useful
for potting and fruit-tree border mak-1 (
ing; some say it makes grass extra dark
in color?that I caunot positively be : 1
sure of, although I rather side with the 1
belief. Lime is not nearly enough used '
'' i t-< u:i _ ? .1 1 i
in tne garuens. xivery uiu in jjiuuuu
should, in my opinion, bo limed once in j1
five years. It kills slugs and insects (
anil lichen on trees, and acts clieini- I
cally on the ground, and is often bet- 1
ter than manure for certain crops. !
I remember once seeing ground 1
dressed in the gray limo produce i3
barley fifty-seven pounds per bushels- j 1
Horse-hoof parings make a most excel- 1
lent manure for potting pines, vines, '
pelargoniums, etc., and one can easily :
make arrangements with the nearest
blacksmith to savo them. When one
reads of horn shavings beiDg run after, !
I cften think there are as good at the
village forge. Bones are most valuable
in a garden; they decompose but slowly, i:
keep the ground opm, and are invalu- '
able in vino border making. The
champion bench of grapes grown at
!
JliUlUUllI^ll CULUtJ jeuis VYCJ^UJIJg
over twenty-six pounds, did the clever
gardener who grew it great credit; but
it should aiso be known that there were
heaps of bones in the border. A gardener
whom I had got a good situation
for took it into his head to send me a
couple of geese at Christmas time. The
geese were eaten, no matter when or
where, but the bones were saved; these,
with some others, were put into the ,
bottom of two vases on the terrace wall, (
two good plants of Tom Thumb pelar
gonium were planted in them, and at ,
the end of September they measured ,
seventeen feet six inches in cireumfer- ,
ence. So much for bones and pleutv (
of water.
llCClDPH.
Milk Toast.?Cut your bread rather 1
thick, about three-quarters of an inch, 1
allowing a slice for each person ; toast
it quickly before a bright fire to a rich ,
brown ; dip lightly into boiling water ; butter
each slice and pile into the bowl J
it is to be served in; for five persons j ]
take a quart of milk, boil with a teaspoonful
of salt, and when at the full
boil add a heaping teaspoonful of
butter, creamed with a light one of
flour ; stir the milk until it is as thick
as cream ; pour over the toast and serve
immediately.
Apple Snow.?Pat twelve tart apples
in cold water over a slow fire; wheu
softv skin ana core. Mix with a pint of
sifted white sugar, beat the whites of
twelve eggs to a stifl' froth, then add to
the apples and sugar. Put in a dessert
dish and ornament with myrtle. It will
be found much better if frozen.
Pish-Pash or Mutton.?Take any
lean mutton, cut it in small pieces without
any fat or gristle, boil it down into
a nice broth. Then take out the meat.
Wash a teacupful of rice nicelv, and boil
it for a little while in tlie broth until
it begins to look transparent. All
grease to be skimmed off. Then take a
mutton chop or two, take out the bone,
cut in dice. Boil the whole together
with a wholo onion and a little pepper
aud salt for a, quarter of an hour. Serve
without straining. The same receipt
does for beef, chicken, turkey or rabbit.
Chocolate Puffs.?-Beat stiff the
whites of two eggs, and Leat in gradually
one-half pi und powdered sugar;
scrape fine ono ounce and a half prepared
cocoa, dredge it with flour, mixing
in the flour well ; add this gradually
to the eggs and sugar; stir the
whole very hard. Cover the bottom of
a pan with a sheet of white papei ;
place on it thin spots of powdered
sugar about the size of a half dollar.
Pi In o r\nrHnri Via m t f n vo
on top of each, smoothing with a knife
wet in cold water, aiffc a little sugar
over each. Bake in a quick oven a tew
minutes. When cold loosen them from
the paper with a broad knife.
Cooking Peaks.--The usual way to
cook pears for pickling is to make the
syrup of vinegar, sugar and spices, and
prop the fruit into it and boil it until it
is tender. But if the pears are large
and hard the syrup boils away, and
there is danger of -the outside of the
pear becoming too soft to keep its
shape, while the inner part is still too
hard. These difficulties may bo dono
away with by simply steaming the pear3
until you o an pierce them easily with a
broom-splint. Then have the syrup hot
and drop them in and let them come to
a boil. These pickles will keep in unsealed
jars, but if you have plenty of
cans use them, since pickles that are
canned certainly retain a peculiar ffeshness.
WISE WORDS.
Try your skill in gilt first, then in '
yuiu.
Publish your joys, bat conceal your
sorrows.
People's intentions can only be decided
by their conduct.
One day is worth three to lrim who
does everything in order.
Gravity is but the rind of wisdom,
but it is a preservative rind.
The ignorant hath an eagle's wings
and an owl's eyes.
The king-becoming graces?devotion,*
patience, courage, fortitude.
Judgment and reason have been
grand jurymen since before Ncah was a
sailor.
Promises hold men faster than benefits;
hope is a cable and gratitude a
hread.
Whoever looks for a friend without
imperfection will never find what ho
seeks. We love ourselves with all our
thing rem.nneil unexplored, it is too
soon to talk about the futility of exploration.
We know no more what wo i
may fiud or to what use we ruay put the
knowledge to be gained than Christo- :
pher Columbus knew of America when
lie sailed from Palos to find a new passion
to the East Indies.
Where the Horses Went.
Farmers in the neighborhood of De
Witt and Brunswick, Mo., recently
bave missed great numbers of horses.
It was known, of course, that the ani
rnals were being stolen; out wnero tne
thieves took them the victims had 110
idea. Roads were guarded all night,
hcrses continued to disappear. A few
ilays ago a hunter penetiated the depth
of a forest of willows that grow at the
mouth of the Grand river. The forest (
covers an islaud of some .r?,00l) acres, ^
and so thickly interwoven are the limbs j
of the trees that it is extremely difficult
to enter. The sportsman heard the
neigh of a horse far in among the wil- ,
lows. It occurred to him that the nc'gli
had some connection with the mystery
of the missing animals. A half-hour's
hard work brought him to the heart of
the forest, and there he saw forty or
more horses quietly feeding in a barbed j
ffiro incloaure. The thieves had a se-!
?ret path to tho pound. They h: d been
removing the horses at pleasure duriug
[light by means of a Mississippi Hat
boat. On the evening of the discovery
:hey were nabbed.
The density of tho Dead sea and the
Atlantic ocean, distilled water being as
I, the former is 1.13 and the latter <
L.02. j
Rub or Rust. SI
Idler, why lie down to (Me? H
Better rub than rust. Ih|
liar':! the lark sings in tho sky? 9
Dio when die thou must!
Day is waking, leaves arc shaking, flffi
Better nib than rust. flH
In the grave there's sleop enough- I
Better rub than rust. Featb,
perhaps, is hunger proor, SI
Die, when die thou must; mm
Men are mowing, breezes blowing, . 89
Better rub than rust.
He who will not work shall want;
Naught for naught is just?
Won't do, must do, when ho can't, PH
Better rub than rust.
Bees are flying, sloth is dying, H
Better rub than rust. 'MB
?Eoeiezer Elliott . . IMC
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A bear story is not necessarily the
The ring of tho street car bell
sometimes faro warning. Jfl
Hauling a man in effigy is about as
much fun as making faces at a blind
"Excuse the liberty I take," as the
cr nviot remarked when he escaped from $ 'j|H
the State prison. H
A manufacturing wire worker, in an- . v*mH
advertisement, invites tho public to .JSH
come and see his invisiblo wire fence. M
A base hit. Perhaps after all, the
surest way to wipe out the Apaches
would'bo to invite them to play baseball
with a baseball nine. JH
A piece of petrified bread has been
found in Iberville Parish, La. No clew
to tho mystery, as there is no railroad.
lunch counter in the county. S|
A young clergyman in Iowa recently fl
married a couple in the following brief jB
manuer; "Do you want one another?"
Both replied yes, "Well, then, have. ;8B
one another."
Tho bicyclo is a great thing to put . ? W
flesh on a man. The Chicago Tribune >
knows of a man who had one only a week,
and his left ankle is tbreo inches 9
larger around than it was when he first J9H
xiiu luiiu uarnco ouuu uiuii. xtu *
tongues of lire high up toward the glow- .<*! Hj
iDg heavens, a3 if they were, in their
vengeful fury, endeavoring to sear the "'-jSfHH
bright faces cf the twinkling stars I", 4x90
It was only a 850 stable, containing 825
worth of hay, but the reporter felt that
way and really couldn't help it.?Detroit - ^ H
" Engineer, is that boiler perfectly '.j-t
safe?" asked an apprehensive passen S
ger, glancing at the machinery suspi- jam
ciously. " Perfectly," said the engin- -^SS
eer. "How do you know?" "Easiest fl
thing in the world," he returned; "I -S
i plugged up the first crack in it last ?
week myself, and the new Crack ain't
more'n two days old." M
An Indiana editor, s.track by light- ' . JflH
ning, was stripped of his clothes and 9
thrown against a wall. If he was relying
on running a weekly paper for his B
support, we don't blame the lightning,
for lie was probably so thin that the ,/M
lightning took him for a lightning-rod ' w B
and struck him while under the im- 'vJjHS
! pression that he was simply attending '||S 9
to business.?Eransville Arrjus. M
Tri "R^of/^n -r/iAonflxr /Inrinrr Kanlnnflr Xr^^H
faults, and we ougnt to love our menaa
in like manner.
A man has no right to occupy such
high moral grounds that he is constantly
so far above his fellows that he can
be of no earthly assistance to them.
A great deal depends upon a man's
courage when he is slandered and traduced.
"Weak men are crashed by detraction,
but the brave hold on and succeed.
Arctic Explorations.
Every once in a while a newspaper
breaks into declamation over the perils
of Arctic navigation. Referring to the
fact that it is now two years since the
departure of the Jeannette and that
nothing has been heard of her, the
Springfield Republican remarks: "The
search for the golden fleece fades into
flat prose beside the dar ng and subtle
sentimentalism which sustains these repeated
and perilous assaults on the
great mystery of geography." In the
first place it shows a weak head to
assume yet that an evil fate has befallen
the Jeanette. Sue ' was provisioned
for three years, and other supplies
were cached at St Michael's to J
--1- t? iU
pruviue iui iue cmcigiruuj vx tuo auuudonment
of the vessel and the return of
her crew upon the ice to that point. It
is hardly to be believed possible that
the vessel and her entire company
should disappear and Ic-ave no trace. 1
^"1" A?>/1A in Aim f J tYI Ci O llOQ O
V u iy UU(/C XU uivu^/iu uiuAVst? UUJ M iruviv
expedition been lost, and the fate of Sir
John Franklin's companions was due to
the fact that he had no steam power and
that the art of traveling on the ice had
not then been rcduced to the perfection
which the genius of Sir Leopold
McClintock afterward developed.
Indeed, under the improved condition
of later day Arctic explora j
tions, it may be questioned whether
there is anything more perilous in undertaking
a voyage in search of the!
pole than in embarking in the fall of the
year on an overladen wheat carrying
schooner at Chicago for Buffalo. Nondenskjold
mulo his great voyage from
sea to sea without losiDg a life. Even
on board the Polaris, a vessel ill-prepared
for everything except mutiny and
disorder, with two rival captains who
were sailors and a commander who was
not, the only men who did not come
back safe and sound after all those romantic
adventures was the chief. Dur- !
ing the search for the Franklin expedition,
which was carried on by a large 1
fleet first and last, and was kept up for
many years, although several vessels 1
were abandonee!, very few lives were
sacrificed?probably not more than j'
would have been lost in the ordinary .
naval service covering an equal perio 1 (
of time. Neither the ice, nor the snow, '
nor the cold, nor the sea has been the
explorer's worst enemy, but the scurvy, J
ind the process of canning meat and
regetables offers an excellent means of
defense against this scourge. It is said
that Nordenskjold bids defiance to the <
iisease. As it is too soon by a year to ]
^ive tip the Jeannette, so long as any- [ 1
hours and with all the clerks present, a
I man stepped behind the counter, walked : B
to the safe, entered, took up a paokuge 9
containing 8600,000 belonging to the *t1B
president of the back, and walked away fl
j with it unmolested, The man who fl
j executed this cool proceeding baa 7fl
always stood high in the community fl
and is well known. He is the president
. of the bank. fl
Severe Droughts. .
An interesting record is that of severe I
droughts as far back as the landing of 4
I the Pilgrims. How many thousanfl
times are observations made liko 9
| the following: "Such a cold y^Hlj
j season!" " Snch a hot season 1" ? &
i "Such dry weather!" or "Such xj^.jaBj
wet weather!" "Such high winds or ' 1
calm !" etc. All those who think the
dry spell we have had this year is the n
longest ever known, will do well to read
the following: gfl
In the summer of 1621, 24.days in H
i succcssion without Jain.
In the summer of 1630, 41 days in ' ^4pfl
' succession without lain. ' fij
In the summer of 1657, 75 days in 9
succession without rain. fl
In the summer of 1662, SO days in
; succession without rain.
In the summer of 1674, 45 days in 5
j succession without rain.
In the summer of 16S0, 81 days in g
succession without rain.
In the summer of 1694, 62 days in I
succession without rain. _ .
In tho summer of 1705, 40 days in I
succcssion without rain. -'
In the summer of 1724, 61 days in I
succession without rain. jx&M
In the snmmer of 1728, 61 days in |
uccession without rain.
In the summer ot J73U, y~' nays m
saccetsion without ra;n. I
In .the summer of 1741, 72 days in I
succession without rain. I
Iu the summer of 1749, 108 days in |
succession without rain. "idj'jl
In the summer of 1755, 42 days in J
succession without rain. I
In the summer cf 17o2, 123 days in |
succession without rain. I
In the summer of 1783, 80 days in I
succession without rain.
In the summer of 1791, 82 days in
sueccssion without rain.
In the summer of 1802, 23 days in j
succession without ruin.
Iu the summer of 1812, 28d?ys in .1
succession without rain. a
In the summer of 1856, 24 day3 in I
succession without rain.
In the summer of 1871, 42 days in |
succession without rain. *|S
In the summer of 1875, 2G days in H
succession without rain.
In the summer of 1S7G, 27 days in
succession without rain.
Io will bo seen that the longest
1 rought that ever occurred in America .'
nas in the summer of 17G2. No rain
'ell from the first of May to the first of
3eptember, rfiaking 123 days without
'ain. Many of the inhabitants sent to
England for hay and grain. t
His Honor anil the Small Hoy.
' Bub," said his honor, as ho leaned
aver the desk to look down upon a redheaded
rat of twel\e,."do you expect to
be sent to State prison for life ?"
" Y-yith, thir," was the reply. JI
"Well, you'll get there if you keep 7!
on. Don't you know that it is an awiul
thing for a boy like you to throw a big
apple and hit an ex-alderman in the
left eye?"
"Itslipped, thir." *ja
" IIuwV'
" I tbrowed at a b-boy, an' it wentol?
t'other way."
" Thro wed at a boy, eh? Suppose
you had killed the boy?" s ^
"Yitli, thir; I'd like to kill him,'cause *
he clubbed my dog."
His honor looked under the desk for
-
au imaginary umbrella, and it was a t
long minute before lie straightened up j
and paid:
" Vonrs is a serious ease." ^
"Yith, thir." "]
" You must bo cheeked in your young
career. If you will assault an alderman
now, what wouldn't you do when you
ire a man V"
"Yith, thir, I wouldn't."
"I don't want to send you to the
workhouse, and vet I feel that you mnsti
be made to respect the law. Bijah,
hadn't vou better take care of this
b \y ?"
liijah led him into the corridor and
shut the door. What passt d there may
never bo revealed. \Yh^n the door
was opL ned the floor was strewn with
pieces of shingle, and the boy had gone
around the cornel. Those who saw
> * * 'i * ' - 1
1)1111 8.1m t11110 i1u lul'l\tjil iuiiicu
tlu* back of his nock down to his heels,
and that he was in a great hu-ry.?
Detroit Press. Jd
A fev.* drops of muriatic acid poured
on a tablespoonful of pulverized marble
will produce carbonic acid fjas.